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There are often times when I have felt over-whelmed by work, love, life, children and career. During these times I try and remember a story my therapist, John, shared with me.
One of his client’s (let’s call him Martin) had described a particularly vivid dream. The dream started with Martin swimming under the sea. He described fishes swimming by and feeling a sense of peace and calm. All of a sudden he saw a large...

A couple of weeks ago I was driving to the Greenville-Spartanburg airport after spending a weekend with my kids at Clemson University. As I started my journey I did what I normally do and tuned to NPR (for those of you who don’t live in the US...

I live just outside Washington DC so the recent shut down was hard to ignore as many friends and colleagues were sent home and thousands of government workers emptied the district. I’m not going to weigh in on the brinkmanship around the debt ceiling...

As more of my practice moves toward the virtual I’ve been trying to find a way I can keep focused on a client and take notes I can use after our video call has ended. For some reason I find it harder to simultaneously focus on a conversation and...